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LATEX for Word Processor Users Version 1.0.10 LATEX for Word Processor Users version 1.0.10 Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. [email protected] January 8, 2015 Abstract Text processing with LATEX offers several advantages over word processing. How- ever, beginners may find it hard to figure out how to perform common tasks and obtain certain features. This manual attempts to ease the transition by drawing com- parisons between word processing and LATEX typesetting. The main word processor capabilities are listed, along with their equivalent LATEX commands. Many examples are provided. Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Preliminaries............................................2 1.1.1 Editor-Supported Features................................2 1.1.2 Adding Packages......................................2 1.1.3 Adding the Info Page...................................4 1.2 The Golden Rules.........................................5 2 The File Menu 5 2.1 File/New ...............................................5 2.2 File/Save As. ...........................................6 2.3 File/Save As Template .......................................6 2.4 File/Import .............................................6 2.5 File/Page Setup ...........................................7 2.5.1 Page Setup/Headers and Footers ..............................8 2.6 File/Printer Setup ..........................................8 2.7 File/Print Preview ..........................................8 2.8 File/Print ..............................................8 2.9 File/Versions .............................................9 3 The Edit Menu 9 3.1 Edit/Autotext ............................................9 4 The Insert Menu 9 4.1 Insert/Breaks ............................................9 4.2 Insert/Enumerated List ....................................... 10 4.3 Insert/Special Character ....................................... 12 4.3.1 The AC Sign......................................... 13 i 4.4 Insert/Formula ............................................ 13 4.5 Insert/Footnote ........................................... 13 4.5.1 Footnotes at End of Document.............................. 14 4.6 Insert/Indices ............................................ 15 4.7 Insert/Vertical and Horizontal Space ................................ 15 4.8 Insert/Tabs ............................................. 15 4.9 Insert/Cross Reference ....................................... 16 4.10 Insert/Margin Notes ......................................... 16 4.11 Insert/Text Frame .......................................... 16 4.12 Insert/Figure ............................................. 17 4.12.1 Wrapping Floats...................................... 19 4.13 Insert/Shapes ............................................ 19 4.14 Insert/Line .............................................. 21 4.15 Insert/Hyperlink ........................................... 21 4.16 Insert/Comment ........................................... 22 5 The Format Menu 22 5.1 Format/Line Spacing ........................................ 22 5.2 Format/Character .......................................... 22 5.2.1 Superscript and Subscript in Chemical Formulae.................... 23 5.2.2 Underline styles....................................... 23 5.2.3 Format/Character Size ................................... 24 5.2.4 Format/Character Font ................................... 25 5.2.5 Format/Character Colour .................................. 26 5.3 Format/Paragraph .......................................... 27 5.3.1 Paragraph/Horizontal Alignment .............................. 27 5.3.2 Paragraph/Vertical Alignment ............................... 27 5.3.3 Paragraph/Margins ..................................... 29 5.3.4 Paragraph/Indentation ................................... 29 5.3.5 Paragraph/Border and Shade ................................ 29 5.3.6 Paragraph/Colour ...................................... 30 5.3.7 Format/Columns ...................................... 31 6 The Table Menu 31 6.1 Table/Line Spacing ......................................... 33 6.2 Table/Rule Width .......................................... 33 6.3 Table/Aligning Numbers ...................................... 33 6.4 Using slashbox ............................................ 34 6.5 Importing Data in LATEX Tables.................................. 34 7 The Tools Menu 35 7.1 Tools/Mail Merges ......................................... 35 7.2 Tools/Labels ............................................. 36 7.3 Tools/Default Language ....................................... 37 7.4 Tools/Hyphenation ......................................... 38 7.5 Tools/Spell Check .......................................... 38 8 The Help Menu 39 9 The End 39 ii A Document Templates 40 List of Tables 1 Useful key bindings for Emacs, Vim, and Jed in IDE mode...................3 2 How to obtain some special characters............................... 12 3 Font attributes............................................ 23 4 Font sizes.............................................. 24 5 Actual font size in pt........................................ 24 6 Common font families........................................ 26 7 Standard LATEX environments................................... 28 8 A sample table............................................ 32 List of Figures 1 A smiley representing the author of this guide.......................... 17 2 A Gnuplot graph........................................... 18 3 Inserting a LATEX formula...................................... 19 4 A LATEX object can be edited as desired.............................. 20 5 Book template............................................ 40 6 Report template........................................... 41 7 Letter template........................................... 41 8 How to write a notice........................................ 42 9 How to write a poster........................................ 43 1 Introduction First of all, let me state that this is not a LATEX primer! If you're reading this document, I assume that you have at least a basic understanding of LATEX and of its basic commands. In this guide, I'll explain how to replace a word processor effectively using LATEX. Word processors are the `killer app' in modern office automation. They're perceived to be easier than LATEX as they have a friendly WYSIWYG interface, and the average secretary will learn to use them in a relatively short time. The problem is, these beasts keep growing slow, bloated,1 buggy, crash-prone, expensive, virus ridden, and incompatible with each other. Not to talk about their default output quality. LATEX is an excellent alternative (in some cases, it is the only viable alternative); but it's not much intuitive for those accustomed to WYSIWYG. To sum up, sometimes you may want to use word processor-like features|but using LATEX. It would be nice to know how to obtain some effects with LATEX when you know how to get them with your once-favourite :-) word processor. That's why I wrote this quick reference. As I said, it assumes some basic LATEX knowl- edge; if it's not the case, I suggest that you go to http://www.ctan.org/starter.html and download The (Not So) Short Introduction to LATEX2e. Another good primer is http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/. 1once upon a time, I wrote my thesis on a 128k RAM, Z80-based home computer. The word processor WordStar and my thesis fit on a single CP/M-bootable 720K floppy, with lots of room to spare! 1 In the following sections, we shall navigate through the menus and menu items of an imaginary word processor, finding out the corresponding LATEX way of doing the same work. 1.1 Preliminaries Many word processor features are implemented by the editor; others by standard LATEX commands; others still are obtained using packages. These are sets of macros that extend LATEX providing new commands and environments. There are lots of packages around: the only problem is knowing where they are, what they do, and how to install them. More about packages in Section 1.1.2. Packages and other TEX-related material are available at many sites that constitute the CTAN: the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. I already mentioned http://www.ctan. org; this site has a wide list of mirrors. From now on, CTAN: means `your favourite CTAN mirror here, starting from the TEX directory'. For instance, you can get LATEX for your platform from CTAN://systems (e.g., http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/). To write your documents, you will need a good text editor. A better choice for beginners is a LATEX IDE: an editor dedicated to writing LATEX source, with preview and many facilities. I suggest that you install one of the programs listed below; all of them are Free/Open Source software. • Texmaker (multiplatform): http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html • TeXstudio (multiplatform): http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ • TeXworks (multiplatform): http://tug.org/texworks/ • TeXShop (Mac OS X): http://www.uoregon.edu/∼koch/texshop/ • TeXnicCenter (Windows): http://www.texniccenter.org/ Information about LATEX on the Mac can be found at http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/. 1.1.1 Editor-Supported Features LATEX is just a formatter: things like cut and paste, search and replace etc. are delegated to the editor. Table1 summarises the main commands of popular editors for geeks: GNU emacs and vim with their native key bindings, and jed configured for Borland IDE key bindings. 1.1.2 Adding Packages The following information applies to TeX Live, which ships with most GNU/Linux distri- butions. It may also work on MacTeX,
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